Prioritization Proposal
Proposal Name / Engaging the College and the Community through the Arts
Brief Description
(one or two sentences) / Create a week-long on-campus festival of the visual and performing arts to engage the campus and the surrounding community. This proposal expands on the success of Art Articulation Day.
Years on Priority List
(5 points) / Art Articulation Day = 3
Augment Gallery Budget = 1
Augment Performing Arts Budget = 1
What will be achieved?
(10 Points) / This project will engage the visual and performing arts departments with the campus and the surrounding community to highlight the importance of the arts in education and everyday life.
Justification: Why should this be done?
(20 points) / Art Articulation Day brings area high school students and teachers to campus for hands-on demonstrations of many artistic media and techniques and encourages students to enroll at College of the Desert. To expand the outreach efforts of the visual and performing arts, the three departments (Art, Music, Theater) will expand public programming to the campus as well as the broader community. Activities will be expanded to the MarksCenter for the Arts and other locations on campus. Musical and theater performances and workshops will be available for current students, faculty and staff, area high schools, and members of the broader community. Particular attention will be paid to reaching the broad diversity of current students. This project will create a strategic outreach plan for the visual and performing arts that will create new enrollments and improve campus community.
College Goals and/or Objective(s) & Student Learning.
(30 points) / 2. Organizational Development: this project will “promote a culture of inclusiveness, participation, collaboration, and mutual respect … and celebrate the value of employee contributions.”
3. Community Partnerships: this project will recognize and strengthen the place of faculty as leaders of arts education in the community.
4. Institutional Growth: this project will build on and enhance student diversity by highlighting performing and visual arts from diverse populations; the project seeks to build enrollments by engaging high school students and community members in arts programs on campus.
5. Institutional Advancement: this project will generate “community support to increase program viability.”
The workshops and outreach activities will expose students who may not be enrolled in arts classes to various media and techniques in the visual and performing arts.
Does this proposal fulfill a mandate? / No
Does this proposal address a safety issue? / No
Will this proposal benefit other areas of the college? / Yes. This project will supplement the efforts of the College Community Task Force by creating opportunities for interaction among students, faculty, staff, board, and the broader community.

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Will this proposal impact or require accommodations from other areas? / Yes: some rearranging of class locations and schedules is usually done to accommodate high school student participation. Other on-campus facilities will be used during daytime hours. Assistance will also be needed from the Public Relations Office.
How will your proposal be achieved? Action plan summary: include primary steps, timeline for implementation, and who is responsible. / What
  • Convene planning committee
  • Plan Events
  • Promote events
  • Implement series of events
/ When
  • Sept. 08
  • Sept 08 – March 08
  • March 08
/ Who
  • Faculty, Dean
  • Planning committee
  • Arts faculty and staff

Assessment process: How will you determine that your proposal has been successful? /
  1. attendance at events
  2. publicity generated off campus
  3. enrollments in performing and visual arts courses
  4. new courses created to meet student and community interest

Resources Required: facilities, equipment, software, staff, etc. (include cost estimate) / Faculty: stipends for faculty to develop workshops and other demonstrations / Cost: $4,500
Classified: overtime for arts technician and other staff / $1,000
Equipment: rental / $500
Facilities/other: supplies for demonstrations; publicity; refreshments / $2,500
Costs after 1st year: project should continue and be built into SSAR division budget / $8,500
Comments of Dean or supervisor / Support
Suggested Prioritization
(from division)

Contact Person: __Jim Berg______Discipline/area: _Dean, SSAR ______

Dean: __Jim Berg______

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